Decibel is a monthly extreme music magazine published by the Philadelphia-based Red Flag Media. The magazine's recurring "Hall of Fame" feature documents landmark metal albums via interviews with every participating band member. The Editor-in-Chief is Albert Mudrian, author of the book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore

Contributing writers include J. Bennett, Joe Gross, Nick Terry, former Carcass frontman Jeffrey Walker, and Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle.

Decibel Hall of Fame

2004

• Slayer "Reign in Blood" (November)

2005

• At the Gates "Slaughter of the Soul" (March)
• Sepultura "Roots" (April)
• Life of Agony "River Runs Red" (May)
• Paradise Lost "Gothic" (June)
• Anthrax "Among the Living" (July)
• Entombed "Left Hand Path" (August)
• Carcass "Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious" (September)
• Atheist "Unquestionable Presence" (October)
• Botch "We Are the Romans" (November)
• Emperor "In the Nightside Eclipse" (December)

2006

• Cathedral "Forest of Equilibrium" (February)
• Sleep " Jerusalem" (March)
• Morbid Angel "Altars of Madness" (April)
• My Dying Bride "Turn Loose the Swans" (May)
• Eyehategod "Take as Needed for Pain" (June)
• Deadguy "Fixation on a Coworker" (July)
• Brutal Truth "Need to Control" (August)
• Rollins Band "The End of Silence" (September)
• Monster Magnet "Dopes to Infinity" (October)
• Meshuggah "Destroy Erase Improve" (November)
• The Dillinger Escape Plan "Calculating Infinity" (December)

2007

• Only Living Witness "Prone Mortal Form" (January)
• Celtic Frost "Morbid Tales" (February)
• Darkthrone "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" (March)
• Cryptic Slaughter " Money Talks" (April)
• Obituary "Cause of Death" (May)
• Quicksand "Slip" (June)
• Cave In "Until Your Heart Stops" (July)
• Bad Brains "Bad Brains" (August)
• Electric Wizard "Dopethrone" (September)
• Immortal "At the Heart of Winter" (October)
• Katatonia "Brave Murder Day" (November)
• Diamond Head "Lightning to the Nations" (December)

2008

• Converge "Jane Doe" (January)
• Opeth "Orchid" (February)
• Coalesce "" (March)
• Mastodon "Remission" (April)
• Napalm Death "Scum" (May)
• Cannibal Corpse "Tomb of the Mutilated" (June)
• Down "NOLA" (July)
• Repulsion "Horrified" (August)
• Black Sabbath "Heaven and Hell" (September)
• Testament "The Legacy" (October)
• Kyuss "Welcome to Sky Valley" (November)

References

External links

• Decibel magazine
• Decibel magazine at MySpace
• Rockcritics.com's Oral History of Decibel Magazine
• Decibel "Night at the Office" commercial